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From The Reporter’s Notebook
November has not been kind to Ben Carson, and the month is barely half over. Here’s TPM’s Caitlin Cruz’s list of what’s happened thus far: He bungled basic history about the Founding Fathers; got caught lying about a West Point scholarship; was ridiculed for saying the Egyptian pyramids were built to store grain; gave an incoherent answer about Mideast policy at a debate; and insisted his sources on China being in Syria were better than the White House’s. His campaign’s latest gaffe? Releasing a wildly inaccurate map of the lower 48 states.
Say What?!
“If you want to insult me, you can do it overseas, you can do it in Turkey, you can do it in foreign countries. But I would encourage you, Mr. President, come back and insult me to my face.”
– Ted Cruz had some fighting words for President Obama.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From TPM Prime live chat guest Rich Yeselson: “There is a kind of broad liberal-left intellectual infrastructure in the US today. I used to joke that Paul Krugman is the “general” of this “army.” And we see that it can push politicians on some key issues, eg, climate change, minimum wage. And there is defensive core of activists within, say, feminism, that will fight to maintain reproductive rights on a state by state level on the streets and in the courts. But there isn’t a massive left of center mobilization that compares with the core of committed conservatives within the Republican party coalition. The “preference intensity”, as the political scientist call it–the sheer passion they bring to fighting for their values and issues–is greater on the right than on the left.”
Related: Yeselson’s piece on the decline of organized labor.
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What We’re Reading
On the Belgian town that has been linked to some of the most high-profile terrorist attacks in recent years. (Buzzfeed)
Our opaque military justice system shields child sex abuse cases. (The Associated Press)
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